South Africa’s opposition leader says was manhandled and assaulted by Zambian security forces | Democracy, elections and voting at Democracy Chronicles

South Africa’s opposition leader says he was manhandled and assaulted by Zambian security forces, who expelled him from the country on Thursday night as he tried to attend the treason trial of a high-profile Zambian politician. Mmusi Maimane, the leader of South Africa’s Democratic Alliance (DA), tells Newsweek that Zambian authorities “violently” seized his phone and…

South Africa’s opposition leader Mmusi Maimane has staged a protest at the Zambian Embassy in Pretoria a day after he was deported from Lusaka. Maimane, the Democratic Alliance leader, is protesting the incarceration of Zambian opposition Hakainde Hichilema who has spent a month and two weeks in a Zambian prison for alleged treason which is a…